# Catagonus

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{{Short description|Genus of mammals}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = [Pliocene](/source/Pliocene) – [Recent](/source/Holocene)
| image = Catagonus wagneri closeup.jpg
| image_caption = [Chacoan peccary](/source/Chacoan_peccary) ''(Catagonus wagneri)''
| taxon = Catagonus 
| authority = [Ameghino](/source/Florentino_Ameghino), 1904<ref>{{cite web |title=Catagonus |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=42423 |website=Fossilworks}}</ref>
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 
*''[Catagonus wagneri](/source/Catagonus_wagneri)''? - Chacoan peccary
*†''[Catagonus bonaerensis](/source/Catagonus_bonaerensis)''?
*†''[Catagonus carlesi](/source/Catagonus_carlesi)''?
*†''[Catagonus metropolitanus](/source/Catagonus_metropolitanus)'' ([type](/source/type_species))
*†''[Catagonus stenocephalus](/source/Catagonus_stenocephalus)''? - Narrow-headed peccary
| synonyms = 
*''Brasiliochoerus''
*''Parachoerus''
}}
'''''Catagonus''''' is a genus of peccaries that contains the living [Chacoan peccary](/source/Chacoan_peccary), C. wagneri, and several extinct species. The genus has always been restricted to [South America](/source/South_America).

==Taxonomy==
''Catagonus'' is notable in that the type species, ''[C. metropolitanus](/source/Catagonus_metropolitanus)'', is extinct; the living Chacoan peccary was first described in 1930 from subfossil remains, and only found alive by scientists in 1972 (an example of a [Lazarus taxon](/source/Lazarus_taxon)).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wetzel |first1=Ralph M. |title=Catagonus, an "Extinct" Peccary, Alive in Paraguay |journal=Science |date=1975 |volume=189 |issue=4200 |pages=379–381 |doi=10.1126/science.189.4200.379|pmid=17840828 }}</ref>

A 2017 study on the phylogenetic systematics of [Tayassuidae](/source/Tayassuidae) species suggests that ''Catagonus'' should only contain ''C. metropolitanus''. The extinct [narrow-headed peccary](/source/narrow-headed_peccary) ''(C. stenocephalus)'' should be moved into ''Brasiliochoerus'', while the Chacoan peccary, ''C. bonaerensis'' and ''C. carlesi'' should be placed in ''Parachoerus''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Parisi-Dutra |first1=R. |title=Phylogenetic Systematics of Peccaries (Tayassuidae: Artiodactyla) and a Classification of South American Tayassuids |journal=Journal of Mammalian Evolution |date=2017 |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=345–358|doi=10.1007/s10914-016-9347-8 |hdl=11336/54840 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> If this is accepted, then ''Catagonus'' becomes an extinct genus once more.

==References==
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Category:Mammal genera
Category:Mammal genera with one living species
Category:Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino
Category:Peccaries

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